Brendan Shaeffer is currently a full-time Software Engineering student at General Assembly, where involvement in an immersive program encompasses over 480 hours of professional training in user-centered design, data science, and software engineering. Previous experience includes serving as a Human Resources Assistant at TILL, Inc., where responsibilities included designing company newsletters and processing applicant information. Brendan has also worked at the United States Postal Service as a Processing Clerk, where management of high volumes of parcels was a key duty, and contributed to community projects through design and assembly work at National Braille Press and the Rhode Island School of Design. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Communications from Rhode Island School of Design and ongoing software engineering studies at General Assembly.